Surveying the complex field of Shakespeare studies today, this book argues that a return to original practices would revive the field. Pechter advances the idea that scholars can perform more effectively by relaxing some of the materialist principles guiding current work, and by reconnecting with the traditions of Romantic commentary from which Shakespearean critical practice developed.

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"Unlike almost all in this genre, Pechter's writing is charming, liberal, witty and urbane." - Archiv

About the Author

Edward Pechter is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Concordia University and an Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Victoria. He is the author of Dryden's Classical Theory of Literature, What Was Shakespeare?, "Othello" and Interpretive Traditions and, most recently, "Othello": A Norton Critical Edition.